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As far as i can recall you are on the 21 at the front. 

There are quite a few row A's in the John Vesey Stand Mid Down.
It should have someother identifer on it like,  CC or CU or EC etc???

Fermanagh team to play Down in the Ulster SFC at Brewster Park, Sunday, 3.30pm:

Chris Breen,
Peter Sherry, Shane Lyons, Hugh Brady,
Damien Kelly, Shane McDermott, Tommy McElroy,

Martin McGrath, James Sherry,

Ryan Keenan, Ciaran McElroy, Mark Little,
Daryl Keenan, Ryan Carson, Eamon Maguire,

O'Rourke has picked a good mix of youth and experience in the starting line-up, good choice having Carson in full forward although if Daryl Keenan is gonna be the free taker can he stand up to the pressure now associated with this responsibility in the Fermanagh senior team?

McCluskey, Shane Goan, Enda Ferris on the bench gives some limited options

why does o'rourke even bother giving out a team to the press? Goan will start.sherry and kelly have both been carrying injuries and cannot see both them starting..nice to see breen getting his chance in goals.McCluskey should start because he is a class act but may have to make do with a place on the bench due to his soccer committments.

["No disrespect to Fermanagh, but if you had looked at the draw on paper, the team we probably would have wanted would have been them. Now that we've got that draw,we have to go out and do the business of beating them.]

Who is the Down minor manager??
He gave an interview to our local paper at home(The Fermanangh Herald).
If the fermanagh players read it, they will need no more motivation

Down management confident of the win


BY GARETH MCCULLOUGH

After a less than inspiring Ulster Minor League where Down only managed one win from five outings to finish bottom of their section, manager Dessie Kennedy is remaining confident ahead of Sunday's Ulster Championship opener against Fermanagh in Brewster Park (throw-in 1.45pm).

A win for Kennedy's side in this preliminary round tie will set up a clash with Cavan in Armagh on May 30th but Kennedy is naturally not looking that far ahead.

In fact, while Kennedy is confident that his side can do the business at the weekend, he wishes that he had more time to spend with the players; a gripe that all Minor managers would appear to have.

"The powers that be at Croke Park didn't permit us to train collectively prior to the first of March," explained Kennedy.

"With Minor, you only get three or four months with them. It's not like the Senior panel where you have them for three, four, five or six years. When you're not allowed to train collectively, it makes things very difficult for you.

"We were like a lot of other counties in that we used the league as a trial basis.

"Everybody was the same in that we don't know who is strong and we don't know a lot about other counties.

"We don't know anything about Fermanagh but anyone you meet in the Ulster Championship is going to be formidable opposition."

The unpredictability of the Ulster Minor Championship means that it's an extremely hard level to predict at this early stage but Kennedy feels that, despite the short time that the squad has been training together, he knows that Down can make the most of the talent they have at their disposal.

MINEFIELD

"It's a total minefield out there, anybody can win on any given day," he said.

"If you look at any records for the Ulster Championship, you will see that there are only usually a few points between the two sides," he said.

"We have to go and play in the Preliminary round, which makes it that bit more difficult. It's psychological getting through the first one but all we can do is prepare the lads physically and mentally on the day and I think we're getting there.

"We had maybe over a hundred players to look at in a very short space of time in the league, so hopefully we've got the right blend and the right guys."

Kennedy, who has pinpointed Ryan Doran, Ross McGarry and Mattie Bagnall as his men to watch, knows what his side is capable.

"You have to be confident (as a management team). If we're not confident then that will run off on the players. We've every confident in the players we have picked and we're confident that the players can do the job," the Down manager said.

"No disrespect to Fermanagh, but if you had looked at the draw on paper, the team we probably would have wanted would have been them. Now that we've got that draw,we have to go out and do the business of beating them.

"No Ulster Championship match is easy but we'll prepare the lads and hope on the day that everything goes right. After that, who knows what could happen."

Damien Kelly has been struggling with injury lately and hasn't trained according to O'Rourke in the IN today. Hopefully he makes it but those teams look close enough to what I'd expect. Really hope Blobby stays in at 14 all game. He could be the target man we've been looking for and he can really take a score himself. He's been called out to midfield to fight fires throughout the league but he could really test a poor Down full-back line.
Big day for Micky Jones at corner-back too. Can't see Tommy that far forward Fermgael.
Surprised it's all ticket? Will be travelling home on the day, presume the tickets will be on sale at the ground on the day too?
Not gonna sell out in a hundred years.

Very surprised its all ticket Exiled.
It will never sell out.  With it being on TV and bad weather forecast, will be lucky if there is 15000 there.
I would say its safe to assume that tickets for behind the goals will be on sale on the day.
Covered stand NO.  Not to sure about the uncovered seating on the sideline though. 
Will find out

Carson will have a huge role to play.  Hopefully he is kept in at full forward.
The Down full back line can be exposed.  McBarron had a field day against them last year in the League

[Should the unthinkable happen and Fermanagh win, i will be the first to congragulate them, but it would be a major shock, and only someone who does not know football would think differently]

Lets cut the hype and bullshit lads. Down will win this easily, and in saying that i am not disrespecting Fermanagh, who in their current form and with their list of injuries, will do well to keep the score respectable. I dont underestimate the ability of the current Down team and management to c**k things up, but to lose this one would be difficult even for them

Ill warrant i have been to more games than you this year Trevor, and i am telling it like it is , The current Fermanagh team have good players, but injuries ,poor results, and loss of key men like Barry Owens has sapped their confidence. Forget the league, Down are a championship team , and our current squad though weak in some vital areas, have too much for Fermanagh or even Cavan to cope with. Should the unthinkable happen and Fermanagh win, i will be the first to congragulate them, but it would be a major shock, and only someone who does not know football would think differently

Those 2 quotes are hilarious.  Cannot take you seriously after that.

We are underdogs again, at home and we have the aristocrats of Ulster football visiting on Sunday.
Should we even turn up??

one should check out enniskilen for vino , one should

Asda.

It's going to be busy enough this weekend LynchBoy with our 22000 all ticket affair in Brewster.
Do not need any more traffic.  It's an island town after all

My Fermanagh team

1. Gallagher

2. Goan
3. Lyons
4. Jones

5. Kelly
6. McCluskey
7. Foy(if fit)

8. McGrath
9. Sherry

10.Maguire
11.O'Brien
12. Little

13. T McElroy
14. Carson
15. D.Keenan

That would be the team that i would line out.
If Foy is fit, push Tommy into the forwards and give him a free role.
Would leave a 2 man Full forward line of D Keenan and Carson.  Down Full back line is not good and will be suspect under the high ball.
D Keenan is raw but he played well the last couple of league game and he can hit a free
Bring Eamonn out to the CHF line and with Lyttle they sould win a good amount of break ball, and act as extra defenders in our swarm defence
If fit, Foy should start as well IMO.  Was playing very well before the injury.

Fermanagh Minors look good value at 5/2 - by all accounts Down were woeful in the Ulster League. I'm not saying put the house on them but as value goes it's worth a punt.

Fermanagh only won one match in the minor league against Derry.
would not be expecting too much of them
But then again, 5/2 is a good price. 

The game is All Ticket 

Munster
Cork

Leinster
Kildare

Ulster
Monaghan

Connacht
Galway

All-Ireland
Tyrone

Well according to the impartial we best Louth last week in a friendly by a goal.

I think that the winners of this game will progress to an Ulster final.

Down have great options upfront and as a Fermanagh man, we would take either Micky Walsh or John Clarke( and they cannot even make the Down panel).
But we have a great defence and should be able to contain them.
Gordon is as good as any midfielder in Ireland but McGrath should be able to at least break even against him.
Upfront we are very limited but Down have a poor defence.  Carson will do damage at full forward.  Sure McBarron destroyed them last year in the league in Newry.
So the teams are pretty evenly match IMO.The Fermanagh backs, Gordon and McGrath at midfield with the Down forwards would be some team

The crucial difference between the two teams is the management.  Here i think that Fermanagh  have the better management team and i think that's what could swing the game in our favour.

Fair play to you RedandGreen. 

According to the Hoganstand Fermanagh page the Derrygonelly v Newtown game was abandonded due to Raymie Johnston picking up a nasty injury.
Anybody shed any light on this story??

Good result for Ourselves last night.  was not at the game but heard that McCarron played very well.

Confimed cases in the US now and also suspected cases in New Zealand.